Happy solstice!
- Americans are increasingly convinced that aliens have visited Earth. (Archived page link)
- An international team of archaeologists are preparing to use advanced muography technology to search for hidden chambers in the El Castillo pyramid at Chichén Itzá, Mexico.
- A SpaceX Starlink satellite is tumbling and falling out of space after partial breakup in orbit.
- Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb takes issue with recent news reports that have said he has changed his mind and now thinks that 3I/ATLAS is a comet of natural origin – because he says he’s thought it was most likely just a comet the entire time.
- Doctors catch cancer-diagnosing AI extracting patients’ data and being racist with it.
- Blackout in San Francisco litters streets with traffic-blocking deactivated Waymo robot taxis.
- Ancient math hidden in 8,000-year-old floral pottery. (Archived page link)
- Pentagon reopens search for UFO-related ‘Yankee Blue’ memo after initial denial.
- Long live the aeonophiles! The discovery of organisms that have been alive for many thousands of years requires a revolution in how we understand life.
- A secret cipher for the KKK: How did the Ku Klux Klan spread across the South? Part of its journey depended on a code for secret correspondence. Nowadays they just post it in plain text on Elon Musk’s X.
- Complex life started with fungi, not plants or animals.
- Video of the Day: Our analysis of the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s new alien contact movie, Disclosure Day.
Quote of the Day
I dream for a living.
Steven Spielberg
